03-01-2020, 12:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2020, 01:49 AM by Eric the Green.)
Apparently Sanders (edit: almost) crossed the 20% level and got over 100,000 votes. Biden may have recaptured some momentum for super tuesday, at least in a few southern states. Tom Steyer spent a million dollars in SC and got no delegates. In most places you have to get 15% of the vote to earn delegates for the convention. That's why Sanders can win with 30% of the vote with a divided field of opponents and still win the nomination on the first ballot. That's what Trump did in the Republican Party, although it's easier to accomplish that there.
delegate race: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/799979293...dates-have
Tom Steyer dropped out: The billionaire businessman said he decided to get out of the 2020 presidential race after he couldn't see a "path where I can win." Steyer spent big on ads in the state leading up to Saturday's vote.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/s...index.html
From CNN's Jeff Zeleny
Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg are all studying their path forward tonight, advisers to the respective campaigns tell CNN.
Klobuchar and Warren are committed to Super Tuesday, when voters in their home states cast ballots.
But one of the biggest questions remains: What are Buttigieg and Bloomberg thinking about their next move?
All four of the candidates are scheduled to be in Selma, Alabama, for the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the annual reenactment of the bridge crossing.
Joe Biden will also be in Selma on Sunday, allowing an opportunity for conversations – or more – among all of the Democratic rivals.
The most pressing question may be for Buttigieg. He is scheduled to go to Texas, Oklahoma and California – before ending Super Tuesday in Michigan.
For now, that schedule holds. But a top Democrat close to the Buttigieg campaign acknowledged tonight that the former mayor is studying whether he has a path forward. He hasn’t reached a conclusion tonight — or if so, he hasn’t talked about it openly, even among his small circle of advisers. Buttigieg's team knows that how he leaves the race — if it comes to that — is important to his future.
My note: I think his path on super tuesday is pretty well blocked. He doesn't do well in the South, where African Americans and Latinos prefer Biden or Sanders. States in the north are dominated by the home states of rivals Klobuchar and Warren. Sanders is strong in CA, and Warren is 2nd.
Sunday, February 23
Race/Topic Poll Results Spread
Minnesota Democratic Primary Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon Klobuchar 29, Sanders 23, Warren 11, Biden 8, Bloomberg 3, Buttigieg 3, Gabbard 1
Klobuchar +6
Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary Boston Globe/Suffolk Sanders 24, Warren 22, Buttigieg 12, Bloomberg 13, Biden 11, Klobuchar 5, Steyer 2, Gabbard 1
Sanders +2
delegate race: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/799979293...dates-have
Tom Steyer dropped out: The billionaire businessman said he decided to get out of the 2020 presidential race after he couldn't see a "path where I can win." Steyer spent big on ads in the state leading up to Saturday's vote.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/s...index.html
From CNN's Jeff Zeleny
Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg are all studying their path forward tonight, advisers to the respective campaigns tell CNN.
Klobuchar and Warren are committed to Super Tuesday, when voters in their home states cast ballots.
But one of the biggest questions remains: What are Buttigieg and Bloomberg thinking about their next move?
All four of the candidates are scheduled to be in Selma, Alabama, for the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the annual reenactment of the bridge crossing.
Joe Biden will also be in Selma on Sunday, allowing an opportunity for conversations – or more – among all of the Democratic rivals.
The most pressing question may be for Buttigieg. He is scheduled to go to Texas, Oklahoma and California – before ending Super Tuesday in Michigan.
For now, that schedule holds. But a top Democrat close to the Buttigieg campaign acknowledged tonight that the former mayor is studying whether he has a path forward. He hasn’t reached a conclusion tonight — or if so, he hasn’t talked about it openly, even among his small circle of advisers. Buttigieg's team knows that how he leaves the race — if it comes to that — is important to his future.
My note: I think his path on super tuesday is pretty well blocked. He doesn't do well in the South, where African Americans and Latinos prefer Biden or Sanders. States in the north are dominated by the home states of rivals Klobuchar and Warren. Sanders is strong in CA, and Warren is 2nd.
Sunday, February 23
Race/Topic Poll Results Spread
Minnesota Democratic Primary Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon Klobuchar 29, Sanders 23, Warren 11, Biden 8, Bloomberg 3, Buttigieg 3, Gabbard 1
Klobuchar +6
Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary Boston Globe/Suffolk Sanders 24, Warren 22, Buttigieg 12, Bloomberg 13, Biden 11, Klobuchar 5, Steyer 2, Gabbard 1
Sanders +2